Hakaya Festival- Jordan

Hakaya Festival- Jordan
Jordan and Hakaya festival will be Sabine's first stop for a new Clown Me In workshop after the Indian experience. It is so exciting to be back to the Arab world and play with the participants. Will be missing Gabriela Munoz!
The workshop will be held from the
14th till the 18th of September between 10am and 1pm at Al Balad Theatre, Amman.

Clown Me IN-dia

Clown Me IN-dia

And here we are, Gabriela Munoz and Sabine Choucair, clowning around India with Clown Me In... Farah Kassem is also with us taking lovely pictures and videos.... what an experience...


The journey started in Dhampur, where the director of the school "Rajesh" and his wife "Nisha" who was wearing a beautiful colorful sari, welcomed us with some Chai and coffee... We certainly got to the sweetest place ever. Colors were sweet, people were sweeter and the smell of sugar everywhere...

Wasn't a coincidence to smell this in the air. Apparently we are indeed in Dhampur Sugar Mills and we were to be hosted at the guest house of the sugar factory...
A lovely big house, a great cook and again lots of sweet people all around.


Now the school is amazing too..the rooms are mostly dedicated for sports games like squash, basketball, gym, they even have a swimming pool, a space for music, for carpentry, and lots of classrooms where desks are put in a form of an "L"... That's a proper school of new age.



At school with the kids we had lots of fantastic moments. Pushp Niketan school is a school of new age, the teachers and children are all happy at all times, they have freedom and no stress whatsoever, which really reflects on the way they behave and the love they have for each other. We learned a lot from them, we enjoyed how playful they were in class and how creative they are. We remember one time we were doing the butoh exercise and asked a boy to have the angry face ... He smiled to us and moved his head the Indian way and said yes yes angry...We burst with laughter, it was extremely funny and sweet to us how he expressed his anger with such a happiness that you only have to be that transparent to feel it.
In general anyway, the Pushp Niketan school was full of transparent people, just like its directors, the marvelous couplle, Nisha and Rajish.


It was quite emotional to leave this school. We went into a parade all together with music and clowning around all the classes...

even Farah put her red nose to take some pictures



Our last session with the teachers, was mostly playing the cat and mouse game that they loved and talking and sharing thoughts and sensations... Then they bought us saris.... And drew on our hands some henna so we won't forget them.... As if they are to be forgotten...





Since that day, we talk about them and how beautiful they were... How caring, how emotional to leave the school, the people, the atmosphere, the sugar mills...

The second part of the Journey, is at Riverside school in Ahmedabad.... now this, we will tell you about it when it's done!!!!! and more and more to come when we go to Chandigarh and Dehradun to work with some street performers :) ....

ALL INVITED!

All of our friends in Lebanon!
where? Mojo in Hammra, Beirut.
when? July 12th
what? Mojo in Hamra is opening it's door to stories that have been whispered behind all sorts of doors, and are ready to be wide spread. Humming singing dancing and telling out loud, Sabine, Wael and Chantal will take a wicked delight in taking you into the world of stories.

NOT TO BE MISSED.

Stories will be told in arabic.

INDIA! July/ August 2011





We will get to Delhi on the 17th of july, after a 30 something hour journey we go straight away to Dhampur, where our first gathering begins. Dhampur is in the Bijnor district in the state of Uttar Pradesh hosted by Pushp Niketan School.
After that, we will fly to Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat. We will he hosted by the Riverside School, where we will work with around 150 children plus tutors :) From there, we go straight back to Delhi just to leave for Chandigarth, the place is yet to be announced... ;) We leave after that closer to the Himalayas in a place called Dehradun, very close to Rishikesh and Haridwar. We will he hosted by LOKMASTI Initiative.
There´s a lot to be done before that... but we will be posting each step of the way in both our blogs to keep you posted. We can´t wait to meet all this little faces and start to play!!! ;)

MUCHAS GRACIAS!


MUCHÍSIMAS GRACIAS A LA UNIVERSIDAD DE LA COMUNICACIÓN, EN ESPECIAL A DANIEL REYES POR SU TRATO, SU INTERÉS Y SU COMPROMISO. FUE UN GRAN PLACER COLABORAR CON USTEDES DENTRO DEL NUEVO PROGRAMA DE SI ART. NO SE LO PIERDAN!.
UN AGRADECIMIENTO ESPECIAL A RICARDO ZARRAGA POR ACOMPAÑARNOS.
EN EL LINK PODRÁN ENCONTRAR TALLERES MUY BUENOS CON GRANDES ARTISTAS.

Del 27 de Junio al 1 de Julio, Universidad de la Comunicación


TALLER DE CLOWN

“ TOCANDO EL ESPACIO”

En diferentes grupos, los participantes recibirán una serie de propuestas creativas para introducirlos a lenguajes del “perfomance”. Aprovechando la mezcla de un grupo multidsciplinario, el taller invitará a pensar creativamente sobre la comunicación física, a través de varias provocaciones artísticas como el dibujo, la escultura y la música y así crear consciencia del efecto de nuestro cuerpo en el espacio cuando dejamos que este afecte al universo y cuando nos dejamos ser afectados por el. El taller esta enfocado en la posibilidad del clown para proyectar sus emociones tocando distancias inalcanzables e inimaginables y al mismo tiempo de vivir una realidad muy simple.El Objetivo NO es de obtener un resultado, sino de explorar un proceso, de llevar nuestro lado creativo más allá para descubrir las posibilidades infintas de creación que tenemos.

Dirigido a personas con experiencia previa en artes escénicas (clown, actuación, escenografía, ilumicación) , danza, movimiento, pintura, fotografía, escritura. Mayores de 18 años.

Clown Me In - Circuna - Clowns Without Borders Sweden


Sabine is currently training the "Circuna" circus group at El Rachidia Palestinian Camp. This circus group was initiated by Clowns Without Borders Sweden who trained 15 young Palestinian future artists over a period of 3 years. the group had gone through over than 40 workshops and Clown Me In is now collaborating with both Circuna and Clowns Without Borders in order to devise a show in May 2010.

The group is currently taking the Clown Me In workshop and in May, Gabriela Munoz and Sabine Choucair will be directing their new show...